TEACHING

TEACHING WORK

Ariana is currently working as a visiting instructor at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA. In the fall of 2025 she began work as a teaching artist with Marin Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare for Social Justice program in various prisons throughout California's Central Valley. She was recently a visiting instructor at Colby College in Waterville, ME and at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.

She has taught university courses on acting, Shakespeare, voice, movement, and improvisational practices in performance and completed teaching residencies and workshops for actors and students of all ages throughout the US. She is passionate about the cultivation of radical empathy, and has extensive teaching and directing experience focused on empowering individuals and developing ensembles through ownership of Shakespeare’s language, “quick-raise” process, textual analysis, Laban movement work, improvisational practices in performance, voice and vocal technique, creative problem solving, and using movement to activate the text through the body.

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Academic Institutions

Ariana has taught classes at the following universities:

  • Sierra College, Rocklin, CA

  • Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

  • Colby College, Waterville, ME

Ariana has completed artistic residencies with the following universities and schools:

  • West Point Military Academy, West Point, NY

  • Port Chester Middle School, Rye Brook, NY

  • Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe, NM

  • Academy for Technology and the Classics, Santa Fe, NM

  • Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, NM

  • Capital High School, Santa Fe, NM

  • McCurdy Charter School, Española, NM

  • New Mexico School of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

  • Monte del Sol, Santa Fe, NM

  • Desert Academy, Santa Fe, NM

  • Santa Fe Prep, Santa Fe, NM

  • Fort Dorchester High School, North Charleston, SC

  • Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM